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People are more akin to their contemporaries than to their ancestors.

—Ibn Qutayba (d. 889), ʿUyūn al-akhbār, 2:1

But one should never dismiss as nonsense things that other people took seriously.

—S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 5:260